ABOUT THE BOOK
EVERGREEN:
The Trees That Shaped America
On the heels of his well-praised memoir
Little and Often, named a USA TODAY best book of the year, Cornell University professor
Trent Preszler
returns with a deep dive into America’s energy source in its rise to global superpower: the evergreen. In
EVERGREEN: The Trees That Shaped America
(Publication Date: December 2nd, 2025; $29.00), Preszler explains what it means to live in a world where the evergreen is both tangible and symbolic, synthetic and authentic, a stalwart bystander throughout centuries of human ambition.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Trent Preszler is a professor of practice in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University and serves as director of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation’s Planetary Solutions Initiative.
After growing up on a cattle ranch in South Dakota and attending a one-room schoolhouse on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, his first job out of college was a White House internship for President Bill Clinton.
Preszler received a BS from Iowa State University and an MS and a PhD from Cornell University. A former winemaker and wooden boatbuilder, his life was profiled in a documentary that won a New York Emmy Award in 2018.
